Sentences with phrase «of allegiance as»
«I am not a scientist» is now rivaling the pledge of allegiance as an oath taken by Republican Party leaders.
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(And not, as others have suggested, because of any sort of allegiance to the Sino - Russo friendship.)
Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy and author of «Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America,» explains how Americans have historically been naive about the Russians.
And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.
As has been pointed out by several observers of Fowler's claims over the past few days (to the genuine surprise of many) an HR department's primary allegiance is to the company, not to its workers.
Many China politics experts and some party insiders attribute the downfall of Sun Zhengcai to his reputation as a possible leader whose rise and allegiances lay in his ties to senior party figures other than Mr. Xi.
In fact, the average Gen Y mother now defines «brand loyalty» as a window of allegiance lasting 6 - 12 months before she moves on to explore alternatives.
Several others, including a biotech firm that changed its name to Riot Blockchain, Long Island Iced Tea which changed its name to Long Blockchain, and Hong Kong - based UBI Blockchain have all seen stocks surge as a direct result of their newfound allegiance with crypto tech.
You have simply asserted allegiance to a character in a story repeatedly while dismissing the work of those genuinely curious as to how the universe works.
One of the biggest problems with Christianity today, as with all religions, is their absolute and unquestioning allegiance to the past.
No, they don't want to have holidays or say the pledge of allegiance but they have no problem citing 1st Amendment rights in going door to door pushing their religion down people's throats or getting out of their responsibilties as American citizens by showing respect to the flag.
I have no allegiance to John Calvin, one positive contribution he did make was expounding upon what is known as the doctrines of grace, i.e. the 5 points of Calvinism.
The prime proponents of ID are the fine folk at the Discovery Inst / itute who openly admit that they purpose is NOT to teach what they think is true, but rather to use ID as a «wedge to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies» and to separate science from it's allegiance to «atheistic naturalism».
@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs
Because seminarians have been trained by theologians who are more shaped by their graduate school training than by their ecclesial identification — they see themselves as process thinkers or Barthians rather than as Baptists or Episcopalians — we have seminarians who attempt to make congregations fit the images of their theological allegiances rather than trying to respond to the theological resources of the congregation.
i go to my town hall meeting quite often and its hard for me just to sit their during the pledge of allegiance, because it would offend my ancestors, to swear an oath under your god no i will have to sit their as you prey death upon me and mine.
Giving all other powers their due and their respect, we Christians can not as a matter of total confidence or supreme trust embrace the flag, support the government, or pledge allegiance to the country for which they stand.
On the other hand, I want as well to share faith and Christian hope with these people, to avoid shutting off genuine interpersonal encounter and my own self - disclosure because of any false allegiance to psychotherapeutic norms — and I doubt that empathy alone constitutes such a sharing.
As followers of Jesus, our allegiance is first and foremost to the Kingdom of God, which expands not through power or war or elections, but through service and love.
Allegiance — As followers of Christ, our first allegiance is to the Kingdom of God, not to any kingdoms of this world.
No doubt this will be helpful for purposes of interfaith dialogue or in interfaith settings such as public education where particular religious allegiances must remain muted.
In later life he will not be as free as we often think him to be to make a favorable response to the claims of Christian allegiance.
He will require everyone small, and great, rich, and poor, to recieve a mark (Greek translation — etchin, implant, scrath, stamp) in their right hand, or forehead as a sign of allegiance, or be killed.
It is doubtful whether these remarks of Eliade should be taken as his political allegiance to Marxism.
It's just that nobody ever tries to convince me or my children to pledge allegiance to any of those others, or pray to them, or to persecute people in their name, or to let the government be used as an aid in indoctrinating more people into their myths.
Because I could not hide this fact from myself and others, because I could not very well begin my lectures in Bonn with the salutation to Hitler, and because I could not very well swear an unconditioned oath of allegiance to the Führer, as I should have to do as the holder of a state office, I lost my position in the service of this state and was forced to quit Germany.
As followers of Jesus, we can enjoy America and the Constitution and all that comes with being a citizen (that's another conversation), but our primary allegiance is not to a nation; our goal is not to persuade the world of the American way of life.
Advertisements for Bibles in various translations and with differing annotations, along with commentaries, software programs, reference works, devotionals, and paraphernalia, testify to Protestantism's continuing allegiance to Scripture as the only source of divine guidance.
I find that I can make a more compelling argument against the pledge of allegiance if I base that argument on political beliefs as opposed to my religious beliefs.
Yet, his allegiance to Methodism never seemed so much doctrinal as a matter of family tradition and soothing familiarity.
I say to you candidly, as I have said before, I have never found a man, be he Methodist or be he non-Methodist, willing to contribute to our work here who has not endorsed a liberal Christian policy in the administration of affairs... I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist history, but I have maintained that, greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the call for service in His name was greater than the call to the service of the Church.
When we pledge allegiance to the Flag and the Republic, we are pledging ourselves as culpable in everything done under the banner of that Flag and in the name of the Republic.
There was an immediate wave of schools that renounced their denominational allegiance in favor of «sympathy» in order to qualify for the grants: colleges such as Dickinson, Goucher, and Bowdoin.
The assembled bishops - six metropolitans and thirty conventional bishops from all over Persia - threw themselves at the feet of the reluctant Dadyeshu and vowed him allegiance in terms that unequivocally set apart the church in Asia as free in Christ under its own head the Catholicos, not opposed to the west but equal in rank and authority to any western Patriarchate.
To be a person in any satisfactory sense is to have a characteristic way of life — a system of ideals and values that one has adopted as his own or to which he has declared his allegiance.
Finally, I have written as a priest of the Anglican obedience and much but not all of what I say is naturally a reflection of that particular allegiance.
It is «blatantly non-Indian and recognizably an illegitimate child of colonialism», which introduced the idea of priority of State over Religion against the Indian concept of building the State on the basis of a «secondary allegiance» as in the case of Asoka and Akbar and, in modern India, Mahatma Gandhi.
Yet curiously the «death of God» non-theology held on to Jesus as though allegiance to him were a sufficient and necessary response to the secular world.
There is another school of thought that dismisses such personal likes and dislikes as irrelevant to allegiance to a church, the lone legitimate Christian fellowship, all the more virtuous if you find some of your fellows insufferable.
A State is a sovereign political unit to which its citizens as members of a national community owe allegiance.
As C. S Song explains regarding Taiwan, «Christians brought to trial because of their allegiance to Jesus have changed a military court into a court of testimony!»
The order of value which is defined by love is the unifying fact, partly realized, partly stretching beyond realization as a possibility, to which we can give our allegiance completely.
Whether or not you share my admiration of the orthodox doctrine, we have to recognize that it represents an interpretation of God and Jesus which not only has had the allegiance of the vast majority of Christians in the history of the Church, but which also has a proven track record as a doctrine which can help people to lead faithful lives following the teaching and example of the Christ.
A little more than a year later, I remembered those people and their silent tears as I wandered round a Moscow at last liberated from the Communist tyranny that had demanded the allegiance of everyone since 1917, a Moscow from which the tanks, defeated mainly by popular scorn for a rotten, drunken, washed - up junta of secret policemen and hacks, had withdrawn.
They displayed, however, great vitality, and one or another of them or of other varieties of what, following the usual convention, we must label as Protestantism, won the allegiance of the majority of the population of Northwestern Europe.
As Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieAs Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieas much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieas the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communities.
His purpose is to milk his followers of as much money and allegiance as possible.
Nevertheless, we were Americans, and if that required a pledge of allegiance to a principle that undermined our own history and identity as Jews, we would gladly pay the price.
Barth was convinced that the church would never be able to say No to Hitler so long as it offered allegiance to any voice save that of Jesus Christ.
One could transfer one's allegiance to science and deposit one's faith in «progress»; but that would impose faithful adherence to the dictates of science, such as the doctrine of natural selection.